Quiet Years

Famous quotes containing the words quiet and/or years:

“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“What is it then between us?
What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?

Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and
place avails not,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)